70 - Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem
1714 - Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI & France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine
1822 - Pedro I, son of King Joao VI declares Brazil’s independence from Portugal (National Day)
1888 - Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby to be placed in an incubator at State Emigrant Hospital on Ward’s Island, New York
1909 - Eugene Lefebvre becomes first pilot to die in an airplane craft, while test piloting new French-built Wright biplane at Juvisy
2005 – Amid low voter turnout and allegations of irregularities, Hosni Mubarak won Egypt’s first multicandidate presidential election to remain in office.
2015 – British archaeologists announce the discovery of a Neolithic “superhenge” under 3ft of earth at Durrington Walls
2017 – 8.2 earthquake hits south-west of Pijijiapan, Mexico killing at least 90, strongest Mexican quake in a century
2020 – Wildfires have burnt a record 2 million acres in California 2020 fire season, more than the state of Delaware according to Cal Fire
Births & Deaths:
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi entered Naples, Italy, and proclaimed himself “Dictator of the Two Sicilies.”
1936 – Buddy Holly [Charles Holley], American musician (Peggy Sue, That’ll Be the Day), born in Lubbock, Texas (d. 1959)
Film & TV:
1980 - 32nd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner & Barbara Bel Geddes win. Notable for going ahead despite 51 of the 52 nominated performers boycotting the event due to a strike by members of the Screen Actors Guild.
Music:
1996 - Rap artist Tupac Shakur shot multiple times in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas, dies 6 days later
Sport:
1896 - A. H. Whiting wins the 1st automobile race held on a closed-circuit track in Cranston, Rhode Island
1979 – ESPN, a cable network dedicated to sports, debuted on American television.
